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In this age of Big Brother, we all know that a surveillance camera is never far from watching our every public move.

And so it is that we have chilling footage of killer Luka Magnotta captured at virtually every frightening step of the way: From his rehearsal on May 18, 2012 when he’s seen accompanying a mystery man into his building and then helping the lucky, but unsteady, victim leave the next morning; his subsequent welcoming of Chinese student Jun Lin to his apartment of horrors six days later; his narcisstic preening before his lobby mirror; his busy but methodical efforts to dispose of Lin’s dismembered body and even his escape to Europe.

And throughout every video segment, be it his apartment building security camera or the many angles of closed circuit TV that watched him at the airports in Montreal and Paris and later in his hotel lobby and Eurolines bus station bound for Berlin, Magnotta appears calm, collected and not like a crazed, insane murderer.

So it is curious then why his defence lawyer spent the day introducing reams and reams of video evidence that doesn’t appear to bolster his argument that Magnotta, 32, should be found not criminally responsible for slaying Lin because he suffered from a mental disorder. Which is not to say that he should appear like a lunatic, but even as he’s carrying garbage bags heavy with the bloody clothes and limbs of the man he killed, he goes back and forth past tenants sitting on the stoop as if he’s simply carrying his weekly groceries.

Lawyer Luc Leclair is still weeks away from opening his case and offering the psychiatric evidence the jury is sure to hear, but his cross-examination of Det.-Sgt. Claudette Hamlin focused virtually entirely on showing dozens of clips of his client, nonchalantly going about his day after slaying Lin.

Last week the jury saw the death march, an engaging Magnotta leading his unsuspecting victim down the hall to apartment 208 at 10:17 p.m. on May 24, 2012, never to be seen alive again. Through the early morning hours of May 25 and into the next day, the security video in his building shows a relaxed Magnotta making countless trips to get rid of the horrific evidence of what he had done.

And in the midst of cutting Lin into pieces and sending parts of the poor man to the trash and others through the mail as macabre gifts, sometimes even wearing his clothes as he did so, court heard that Magnotta also had the presence of mind to go on Expedia at 4:38 a.m. to book a return ticket to Paris in his own name.

The last video from his building captures the killer leaving for the airport at 5:14 p.m. on May 26, 2012, wearing sunglasses, a dark $1,700 wig and a black Mickey Mouse T-shirt.

His lawyer presented numbing video clip after video clip as Magnotta made his way through the Montreal airport bound for an Air Transat flight to Paris. He looks like just any other passenger patiently winding through security and waiting to board, showing nothing that would alarm professionals trained to pick up the suspicious.

Then there was surveillance video of Magnotta arriving the next day at Charles de Gaulle airport, again behaving in a way that would draw no attention. More footage from closed circuit cameras at the Paris Novotel where he arrived in a taxi at 1:54 p.m. Interminable video is played of the hotel reception desk where Magnotta eventually goes at 2:22 p.m.

Once again, he appears as normal as can be, just as he does when we see him on CCTV from May 31 at the bus station where he boarded a coach to Berlin, where he would be arrested four days later in a cybercafe.

Almost from start to finish, from Canada to Europe, we have been able to catch recorded glimpses of the serene killer. The porn actor and model who loved to look at himself in the mirror was never far off camera.